Patriot,

Now that Joe Biden has broken his often-made promise of not
pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, by giving a full and
unconditional pardon to his son, many in the mass media are
attempting to minimize the scandal by comparing Biden's pardon to
pardons given out by past presidents, especially President Trump.


But as I point out in my latest column - read it below - the
issue people should have with Hunter Biden's pardon isn't the
crimes Hunter is being pardoned for, but the staggering
hypocrisy.

Joe Biden himself has put hundreds of thousands, perhaps even
millions, of Americans behind bars for drug, gun, and tax crimes.
As President, the entire U.S. Department of Justice is under his
command.

As I explain in my column, being tough on crime was a major part
of Biden's political career. He famously sneered earlier this
year that "no one is above the law," referring to Donald Trump.

By pardoning his son for not merely a single crime, but for all
actual or possible crimes he may have committed over an 11-year
period, Biden has made his own son, in fact, above the law.

Many Americans behind bars today due to Joe Biden's policies and
actions over the past 50 years deserve similar consideration.

Read the column below, and if you support Campaign for Liberty's
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Ron Paul


The Real Scandal of Hunter's Pardon

Politicians and pundits spent much of last week commenting on
President Biden's pardon of his son Hunter for lying on a federal
gun purchase form, failing to pay taxes, and any other offenses
he may have committed over the past decade. Much of the
controversy is because President Biden repeatedly pledged that he
would never pardon his son.

Some have also observed that the pardon's timeline starts the
year Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukraine energy company
Burisma. This has led to speculation that President Biden is
trying to block any investigation into links between his son's
business dealings and President Biden's Ukraine policy.

What has not been widely discussed is the fact that Hunter Biden
may be the only American President Biden has pardoned for
violating unconstitutional federal gun and drug laws.

Hunter Biden was convicted of lying on federal Form 4473. This is
a form Americans must fill out to get federal government
"permission" to purchase a firearm. Specifically, Hunter Biden
gave a false answer to the question, "Are you an unlawful user
of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant,
narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?"

The Second Amendment forbids the federal government from limiting
the ability of any American to exercise his natural right to own
a firearm. Furthermore, federal drug laws are themselves
unconstitutional.

The Constitution only creates three federal crimes: treason,
piracy, and counterfeiting. All other crimes are under the
jurisdiction of state and local governments. So, the required use
of this form is a constitutional violation of the rights of
Hunter Biden and all other Americans who are subjected to it when
they seek to obtain a gun.

Form 4473 warns Americans that "the use or possession of
marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of
whether it has been legalized or decriminalized for medicinal or
recreational purposes in the state where you reside." Thus,
someone could be prevented from exercising his Second Amendment
right because of his activities that are perfectly legal in his
state. This turns federalism on its head.

Hunter Biden was also convicted of, and pardoned for, tax evasion
and the filing of fraudulent tax returns. It is hard for anyone
who values liberty to get upset at those who violate the tax laws
since the income tax is a form of theft by the government of
people's hard-earned income.

An outrage of Hunter Biden's pardon is President Biden's
hypocrisy. When he served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee in the 1990s, then-Senator Biden played a major role in
getting through Congress the Brady Law that created the federal
gun purchase background check system that Hunter Biden was
convicted of violating.

Senator Biden also was a leading drug warrior who led the fight
to pass the 1994 crime bill and was a champion of mandatory
minimums and other infringements of civil liberties in the name
of the war on drugs. President Biden also supported hiring more
IRS agents to squeeze more money from taxpayers.

Then-Senator Biden wrote large parts of the PATRIOT Act. As
chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Biden
also led the effort to pass the unconstitutional (and disastrous)
"authorization for use of military force" against Iraq.

President Biden should spend his last month in office pardoning
more Americans for violations of unconstitutional drug and gun
laws. This would serve as a small gesture of atonement for a
political career spent advocating policies destructive of peace,
prosperity, and liberty.


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